If you are planning your schedule further ahead, I recommend “Evolving Priorities in the Supply Chain after the Pandemic – A View from the Chief Procurement Office” from Spend Matters and Avetta on June 24th at 1pm ET. BTW: If you haven’t already, sign up for our mailing list to be sure you get my weekly recommendations in your inbox each Monday. Spend Category Outlook 2020: Key Trends, Cha...

Buyers Meeting Point will restore industry access to MyPurchasingCenter's valuable content on categories such as MRO, logistics, and indirect spend and engage with the MyPurchasingCenter audience via social media. This acquisition will increase Buyers Meeting Point's social media following and expand the volume of information already available via their blog. The move also preserves a credible and...

Report Rundown In May, New York City purchasing managers reported across the board increases as gradual re-openings signal the beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic shock. Current Business Conditions rose 15.2 points to 19.5 in May, up from the all-time low of 4.3 reported in April. The Six-Month Outlook rose 21.6 points to 48.0 in May, up from the all-time low of 26.4 in April. For ref...

If we want to grow and improve, for the good of our own careers as well as for the benefit of the companies we work for, we need to figure out how to turn this around. So, how do we do it? By graduating from tactical resources to strategic powerhouses. The DIKW Pyramid The first step on the way to graduation is to reevaluate the DIKW pyramid. We’re all familiar with it, yet too many of us f...